Chambers of the priests.

CHAP. XLII, XLIII. The return of God's glory.

thereof, and the walls thereof, were of a door in the head of the way, even the way wood: and he said unto me, This is the directly before the wall toward the east, table that is before the LORD. as one entereth into them.

23 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.

24 And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.

13 Then said he unto me, The north chambers and the south chambers which are before the separate place, they be holy chambers, where the priests that approach unto the LORD shall eat the most holy things; 25 And there were made on them, on there shall they lay the most holy things, and the doors of the temple, cherubims and the meat-offering, and the sin-offering, and palm-trees, like as were made upon the the trespass-offering; for the place is holy. walls; and there were thick planks upon 14 When the priests enter therein, then the face of the porch without." shall they not go out of the holy place into

26 And there were narrow windows and the outer court, but there they shall lay palm-trees on the one side and on the other their garments wherein they minister; for side, on the sides of the porch, and upon they are holy; and shall put on other garthe side-chambers of the house, and thick ments, and shall approach to those things planks. which are for the people. 15 Now when he had made an end of HEN he brought me forth into the outer measuring the inner house, he brought me

CHAP. XLII.

he brought me into the chamber that was toward the east, and measured it round over against the separate place, and which about.

was before the building toward the north. 16 He measured the east side with the 2 Before the length of a hundred cubits measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with was the north door, and the breadth was the measuring reed round about. fifty cubits.

17 He measured the north side, five 3 Over against the twenty cubits which hundred reeds, with the measuring reed were for the inner court, and over against round about. the pavement which was for the outer court, 18 He measured the south side, five was gallery against gallery in three stories. hundred reeds, with the measuring reed. 4 And before the chambers was a walk 19 ¶ He turned about to the west side, of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one and measured five hundred reeds, with cubit; and their doors toward the north. the measuring reed.

5 Now the upper chambers were short- 20 He measured it by the four sides: it er: for the galleries were higher than had a wall round about, five hundred reeds these, than the lower, and than the mid-long, and five hundred broad, to make a dlemost of the building. separation between the sanctuary and the 6 For they were in three stories, but had profane place. not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more

CHAP. XLIII.

than the lowest and the middlemost from AFTERWARD he brought me to the

gate, even the gate that looketh to

wards the east:

the ground. 7 And the wall that was without over 2 And behold, the glory of the God of against the chambers, toward the outer Israel came from the way of the east: and court on the forepart of the chambers, the his voice was like a noise of many waters: length thereof was fifty cubits. and the earth shined with his glory.

8 For the length of the chambers that 3 And it was according to the appearwere in the outer court was fifty cubits: and ance of the vision which I saw, even aclo,before the temple were a hundred cubits. cording to the vision that I saw when I 9 And from under these chambers was came to destroy the city: and the visions the entry on the east side, as one goeth were like the vision that I saw by the river into them from the outer court. Chebar; and I fell upon my face.

against the building.

10 The chambers were in the thickness 4 And the glory of the LORD came into of the wall of the court toward the east, the house by the way of the gate whose over against the separate place, and over prospect is towards the east. 5 So the spirit took me up, and brought 11 And the way before them was like me into the inner court; and behold, the the appearance of the chambers which glory of the LORD filled the house. were toward the north, as long as they, 6 And I heard him speaking unto me out and as broad as they: and all their goings of the house; and the man stood by me. out were both according to their fashions, 7 T And he said unto me, Son of man, and according to their doors. the place of my throne, and the place of 12 And according to the doors of the the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in chambers that were toward the south was the midst of the children of Israel for ever,

Asrael denied God's presence.

EZEKIEL.

The ordinances of the altar. and my holy name, shall the house of Is-saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock for rael no more defile, neither they, nor their a sin-offering.

kings, by their whoredom, nor by the car- 20 And thou shalt take of the blood casses of their kings in their high places. thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, 8 In their setting of their threshold by and on the four corners of the settle, and my thresholds, and their post by my posts, upon the border round about: thus shalt and the wall between me and them, they thou cleanse and purge it.

have even defiled my holy name by their 21 Thou shalt take the bullock also of abominations that they have committed: the sin-offering, and he shall burn it in the wherefore I have consumed them in mine appointed place of the house, without the anger. sanctuary.

9 Now let them put away their whore- 22 And on the second day thou shalt dom, and the carcasses of their kings, far offer a kid of the goats without blemish for from me, and I will dwell in the midst of a sin-offering; and they shall cleanse the them for ever. altar, as they did cleanse it with the bul lock.

10 ¶ Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern.

23 When thou hast made an end of cleansing it, thou shalt offer a young bullock without blemish, and a ram out of the flock without blemish.

11 And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the 24 And thou shalt offer them before the house, and the fashion thereof, and the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon goings out thereof, and the comings in them, and they shall offer them up for a thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all burnt-offering unto the LORD. the ordinances thereof, and all the forms 25 Seven days shalt thou prepare every thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write day a goat for a sin-offering: they shall it in their sight, that they may keep the also prepare a young bullock, and a ram whole form thereof, and all the ordinances out of the flock, without blemish.

thereof, and do them.

26 Seven days shall they purge the altar 12 This is the law of the house; Upon and purify it; and they shall consecrate the top of the mountain the whole limit themselves.

thereof round about shall be most holy. 27 And when these days are expired, Behold, this is the law of the house. it shall be, that upon the eighth day, and 13 And these are the measures of the so forward, the priests shall make your altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit burnt-offerings upon the altar, and your and a hand-breadth; even the bottom peace-offerings: and I will accept you, shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, saith the Lord GOD. and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shallTHEN he brought me back the way of be the higher place of the altar. the gate of the outward sanctuary 14 And from the bottom upon the ground which looketh toward the east; and it was even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, shut.

CHAP. XLIV.

and the breadth one cubit; and from the 2 Then said the LORD unto me; This lesser settle even to the greater settle shall gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit. and no man shall enter in by it; because 15 So the altar shall be four cubits; and the LORD the God of Israel hath entered from the altar and upward shall be four in by it, therefore it shall be shut. horns. 3 It is for the prince; the prince, he 16 And the altar shall be twelve cubits shall sit in it to eat bread before the LORD: long, twelve broad, square in the four he shall enter by the way of the porch of squares thereof. that gate, and shall go out by the way of 17 And the settle shall be fourteen cubits the same. long and fourteen broad in the four squares 4 Then brought he me the way of the thereof; and the border about it shall be north gate before the house: and I looked, half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall and behold, the glory of the LORD filled be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look the house of the LORD: and I fell upon my toward the east. face.

18 T And he said unto me, Son of man, 5 And the LORD said unto me, Son of thus saith the Lord GoD; These are the man, mark well, and behold with thine ordinances of the altar in the day when eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I they shall make it, to offer burnt-offerings say unto thee concerning all the ordinances thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon. of the house of the LORD, and all the laws 19 And thou shalt give to the priests the thereof; and mark well the entering in of Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which the house, with every going forth of the approach unto me, to minister unto me, sanctuary.

The priests reproved.

CHAP. XLV.

Ordinances of the priests.

6 And thou shalt say to the rebellious, selves with any thing that causeth sweat. 19 And when they go forth into the outer even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GoD; O ye house of Israel, let it court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments suffice you of all your abominations;

7 In that ye have brought into my sanc-wherein they ministered, and lay them in tuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, the holy chambers, and they shall put on and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my other garments; and they shall not sanctify sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, the people with their garments. 20 Neither shall they shave their heads, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads. because of all abominations. your 21 Neither shall any priest drink wine, 8 And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers when they enter into the inner court. of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but 9 Thus saith the Lord Gon; No they shall take maidens of the seed of the stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor un-house of Israel, or a widow that had a circumcised in flesh, shall enter into my priest before. sanctuary, of any stranger that is among the children of Israel.

23 And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, 10 And the Levites that are gone away and cause them to discern between the far from me, when Israel went astray, unclean and the clean. which went astray away from me after their

24 And in controversy they shall stand idols; they shall even bear their iniquity. in judgment; and they shall judge it ac11 Yet they shall be ministers in my cording to my judgments: and they shall sanctuary, having charge at the gates of keep my laws and my statutes in all mine the house, and ministering to the house assemblies; and they shall hallow my they shall slay the burnt-offering and the sabbaths. 25 And they shall come at no dead persacrifice for, the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them. son to defile themselves: but for father, or 12 Because they ministered unto them for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for before their idols, and caused the house of brother, or for sister that hath had no husIsrael to fall into iniquity; therefore have band, they may defile themselves. I lifted up mine hand against them, saith

26 And after he is cleansed, they shall

the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their reckon unto him seven days. iniquity.

27 And in the day that he goeth into 13 And they shall not come near unto the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to me, to do the office of a priest unto me, minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his nor to come near to any of my holy things, sin-offering, saith the Lord GOD. 28 And it shall be unto them for an inin the most holy place: but they shall bear their shame, and their abominations which heritance; I am their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I they have committed.

14 But I will make them keepers of the am their possession. 29 They shall eat the meat-offering, charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein. and the sin-offering, and the trespass15 But the priests the Levites, the offering; and every dedicated thing in sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my Israel shall be theirs. sanctuary when the children of Israel went

30 And the first of all the first-fruits of astray from me, they shall come near to all things, and every oblation of all, of me to minister unto me, and they shall every sort of your oblations, shall be the stand before me to offer unto me the fat priest's: ye shall also give unto the priest the first of your dough, that he may cause and the blood, saith the Lord GOD: 16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, the blessing to rest in thine house. 31 The priests shall not eat of any thing and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my that is dead of itself, or torn, whether it be fowl or beast. charge.

that

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CHAP. XLV.

17 And it shall come to pass, OREOVER, when ye shall divide when they enter in at the gates of the inner by lot the land for inheritance, ye court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, a while they minister in the gates of the holy portion of the land: the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand inner court, and within. 18 They shall have linen bonnets upon reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thoutheir heads, and shall have linen breeches sand. This shall be holy in all the borders upon their loins; they shall not gird them-thereof round about.

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The divisions of the land.

EZEKIEL.

The portion of the prince.

2 of this there shall be for the sanctuary | Israel, for a meat-offering, and for a burntfive hundred in length, with five hundred offering, and for peace-offerings, to make in breadth, square round about; and fifty reconciliation for them, saith the Lord cubits round about for the suburbs thereof. GOD.

3 And of this measure shalt thou mea- 16 All the people of the land shall give sure the length of five and twenty thou- this oblation for the prince in Israel. sand, and the breadth of ten thousand: 17 And it shall be the prince's part to and in it shall be the sanctuary and the give burnt-offerings, and meat-offerings, most holy place. and drink-offerings, in the feasts, and in 4 The holy portion of the land shall be the new-moons, and in the sabbaths, in all for the priests the ministers of the sanc- solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall tuary, which shall come near to minister prepare the sin-offering, and the meatunto the LORD and it shall be a place for offering, and the burnt-offering, and the their houses, and a holy place for the peace-offerings, to make reconciliation for sanctuary. the house of Israel.

5 And the five and twenty thousand of 18 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first length, and the ten thousand of breadth, month, in the first day of the month, thou shall also the Levites, the ministers of the shalt take a young bullock without blemish, house, have for themselves, for a possession and cleanse the sanctuary:

for twenty chambers.

19 And the priest shall take of the blood

6 T And ye shall appoint the possession of the sin-offering, and put it upon the of the city five thousand broad, and five posts of the house, and upon the four corand twenty thousand long, over against the ners of the settle of the altar, and upon oblation of the holy portion: it shall be the posts of the gate of the inner court. for the whole house of Israel.

20 And so thou shalt do the seventh day 7 And a portion shall be for the prince of the month for every one that erreth, and on the one side and on the other side of the for him that is simple: so shall ye reconoblation of the holy portion, and of the cile the house.

possession of the city, before the oblation 21 In the first month, in the fourteenth of the holy portion, and before the pos- day of the month, ye shall have the passsession of the city, from the west side over, a feast of seven days; unleavened westward, and from the east side east-bread shall be eaten. ward: and the length shall be over against 22 And upon that day shall the prince one of the portions, from the west border prepare for himself and for all the people unto the east border. of the land a bullock for a sin-offering. 8 In the land shall be his possession in 23 And seven days of the feast he shall Israel: and my princes shall no more op- prepare a burnt-offering to the LORD. press my people; and the rest of the land seven bullocks and seven rams without shall they give to the house of Israel ac- blemish daily the seven days; and a kid cording to their tribes.

9 T Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice, take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord GOD.

of the goats daily for a sin-offering.

24 And he shall prepare a meat-offering of a ephah for a bullock, and a ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil for a ephah.

25 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in 10 Ye shall have just balances, and a the feast of the seven days, according to just ephah, and a just bath. the sin-offering, according to the burnt11 The ephah and the bath shall be of offering, and according to the meat-offerone measure, that the bath may containing, and according to the oil. the tenth part of a homer, and the ephah the tenth part of a homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

THU

CHAP. XLVI.

HUS saith the Lord GoD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward 12 And the shekel shall be twenty ge- the east shall be shut the six working days; rahs: twenty shekels, five and twenty she- but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and kels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh. in the day of the new-moon it shall be 13 This is the oblation that ye shall opened.

offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an ho- 2 And the prince shall enter by the way mer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth of the porch of that gate without, and part of an ephah of an homer of barley; shall stand by the post of the gate, and 14 Concerning the ordinance of oil, the the priests shall prepare his burnt-offering bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of and his peace-offerings, and he shall wora bath out of the cor, which is a homer ship at the threshold of the gate: then he of ten baths: for ten baths are a homer: shall go forth; but the gate shall not be 15 And one lamb out of the flock, out shut until the evening.

of two hundred, out of the fat pastures of 3 Likewise the people of the land shall

Ordinances for the prince,

CHAP. XLVII.

and for the people. worship at the door of this gate before the to one of his servants, then it shall be his LORD in the sabbaths and in the new-moons. to the year of liberty; after it shall return 4 And the burnt-offering that the prince to the prince: but his inheritance shall be shall offer unto the LORD in the sabbath his sons' for them.

day shall be six lambs without blemish,! 18 Moreover the prince shall not take and a ram without blemish. of the people's inheritance by oppression,

5 And the meat-offering shall be an to thrust them out of their possession; but ephah for a ram, and the meat-offering for he shall give his sons inheritance out of his the lambs as he shall be able to give, and own possession: that my people be not a hin of oil to an ephah. scattered every man from his possession. 6 And in the day of the new-moon it 19 T After he brought me through the shall be a young bullock without blemish, entry, which was at the side of the gate, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be into the holy chambers of the priests, which without blemish. looked toward the north: and behold, there

7 And he shall prepare a meat-offering, was a place on the two sides westward. an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for 20 Then said he unto me, This is the a ram, and for the lambs, according as his place where the priests shall boil the treshand shall attain unto, and a hin of oil to pass-offering and the sin-offering, where an ephah. they shall bake the meat-offering; that

8 And when the prince shall enter, he they bear them not out into the outer court, shall go in by the way of the porch of that to sanctify the people.

22 In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure.

gate,and he shall go forth by the way thereof. 21 Then he brought me forth into the 9 T,But when the people of the land outer court, and caused me to pass by the shall come before the LORD in the solemn four corners of the court; and behold, in feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the every corner of the court there was a court. north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it. 10 And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.

23 And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling-places under the rows round about.

24 Then said he unto me, These are the 11 And in the feasts and in the solemni- places of them that boil, where the ministies the meat-offering shall be an ephah to ters of the house shall boil the sacrifice of a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the people. the lambs as he is able to give, and a hin

of oil to an ephah.

CHAP. XLVII.

12 Now when the prince shall prepare AFTERWARD he brought me again

unto the door of the house; and bea voluntary burnt-offering or peace-offer- hold, waters issued out from under the ings voluntarily unto the LORD, one shall threshold of the house eastward: for the thenopen him the gate that looketh toward forefront of the house stood toward the the east, and he shali prepare his burnt-east, and the waters came down from unoffering and his peace-offerings, as he did on der from the right side of the house, at the the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and south side of the altar.

after his going forth one shall shut the gate. 2 Then brought he me out of the way 13 Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt- of the gate northward, and led me about offering unto the LORD of a lamb of the the way without unto the outer gate by the first year without blemish: thou shalt pre-way that looketh eastward; and behold, pare it every morning. there ran out waters on the right side.

14 And thou shalt prepare a meat-offer- 3 And when the man that had the line ing for it every morning, the sixth part of in his hand went forth eastward, he meaan ephah, and the third part of a hin of sured a thousand cubits, and he brought oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat- me through the waters; the waters were to offering continually by a perpetual ordi- the ankles. nance unto the LORD.

4 Again he measured a thousand, and 15 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, brought me through the waters; the waters and the meat-offering, and the oil, every were to the knees. Again he measured a morning for a continual burnt-offering. thousand, sand brought me through; the 16 Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the waters were to the loins. prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the 5 Afterward he measured a thousand: inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it and it was a river that I could not pass over: shall be their possession by inheritance. for the waters were risen, waters to swim

17 But if he give a gift of his inheritance is, a river that could not be passed over,